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RizlaKing said:
Fair enough but don't make comments on ati hardware as you havn't owned it and are simply repeating things you see from other people without knowing if it's right or not or whether the people moaning are the cause of their own problems :).
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I agree to an extent. However, as an example a while back IBM had a series of hard drives, which where slated by tons of people I know (they ultimately got referred as the deathstars) for failing. Now if we're following your logic we'd have ignored these comments and bought one anyway.

The truth is people can, will and in some respects should base their hardware choices on what they hear, but of course should put more weight on what there own experiences are. I've never had an ATI card fail on me, and my problem is more with their drivers. But don't forget the vast majority of "spec me" threads on this forum are looking for peoples opinions on products they don't own. So this guy isn't really doing anything surprising.

My view is that ATI and NV cards aren't typically that far apart on performance, in fact I'd wager good money that if you put swapped out a 5870 with a GTX 295 without telling the owner only about 1 in 100 people would notice. In my view it's typically not the hardware itself that causes most problems for users, but the drivers and support offered. For example people are rightly disappointed with BFG going downhill as their support is oustanding (especially for RMAs), and (although this is heavily debated) I feel Nvidias drivers for Linux and their CUDA SDKs are frankly excellent compared to ATIs efforts on OpenCL and their Linux drivers.
 
Sumanji said:
Haha, well if I was getting nV cards for free, I wouldn't bother with ATi either... still doesn't mean they're better though ;)




It's ironic that you use this argument though - LOL!!


Su
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i used that argument before i revealed i got them for free...but its true..you get what you pay for..
anyone i love a good debate guys,thx for your opinions and ill catch u all later...peace:)
 
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Excellent trolling thevet. Five star.

thevet said:
you get what you pay for....this is the way its always been with anything that you buy...also there is no dx10 based gpu ATI setup to beat my system so to me ATI on DX10 are inferior to me
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An equivalent number of 5870 / 5970 will rinse your setup. :)

It's all much of a muchness anyway, no game needs that much power.
CUDA / OpenCL maybe but then you've got completely the wrong setup for that anyway. :)
 
Would someone be so kind to explain where exactly does this myth that ATi has bad drivers come from? I've had the two makers over the past year and never really felt either was leaps and bounds beyond the other. I see just as much bitching about Nvidia drivers as I do ATi.

Maybe it's one of those things where if you keep telling yourself it is true enough it suddenly becomes gospel?
 
GeneralD said:
Would someone be so kind to explain where exactly does this myth that ATi has bad drivers come from? I've had the two makers over the past year and never really felt either was leaps and bounds beyond the other. I see just as much bitching about Nvidia drivers as I do ATi.

Maybe it's one of those things where if you keep telling yourself it is true enough it suddenly becomes gospel?
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It's not a myth, it's clearly just the view of a lot of people that have used both sets of drivers reporting similar findings as I do, that generally Nvidia's drivers are better than ATI's. Just because *you* disagree or *you* see as many negative posts about ATI drivers as Nvidias doesn't change anything.

I mainly use Linux, and in my experience the ATI drivers where pathetic, and whilst NV's are hardly perfect most features did work as expected, and (post install) where generally trouble free. With ATI drivers it was just an eternal struggle to get them functioning correctly, and getting anything like TV out working was a lesson in extreme patience and surfing about half a billion linux forums for advice:p
 
thevet said:
there is no ati dx10 setup to beat my pc so to me nvidia is the best option FOR ME,doesnt mean its the best for you....
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DX10 is dated, hell even DX10.1 is dated.
The future is DX11, and ATi have cards that can do DX11, DX10.1 and DX10 out right now, show me an NV consumer card that can do AT LEAST DX10.1 ... oh that's right there isn't one.

You go on about how NVidia has the best cards on the market and so on, they don't.
DX 10.1 has been out for 18 months and NVidia still have no card that supports it
DX 11 has been out for for over a month, and NVidia won't have a card that can support it for at least another 3-4 months.

Who is on their game here, because it certainly isn't NVidia that is causing the market to stagnate due to their slow response to technology.
 
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Sumanji said:
This has to be some sort of wind up? Either that or it further reinforces the money>sense stereotype :D
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How can he have money when his typing skills are like those of a 10 year old given the mis-placed spaces, commas and so on.
 
rypt said:
Funny how games perform better under DX10.1 than they do under DX10 (Assassins Creed springs to mind) :D
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Assassins Creed isnt a game, at which point do you have any fun????!!!! (apart from turning it off and uninstalling)

And LolZ at the bickering, i thought PC people were supposed to be above the level of ps3 vs xbox tardiness.

Just buy what u want, its ur own money fgs!
 
Assassins Creed is great fun once you get into the city and don't have to ride on the stupid horse
 
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